Let's discuss Donald Trump saying his father came here from Sweden.
Did he lie?
Good idea. It brings up an irony that screams from the rooftops.
Not at all long ago in the days of Rump's antecedents and Warren's antecedents and my antecedents, pretty much all of us, it was socially dangerous to reveal or let it be known that one was "Irish" or "Jewish" or "Italian". And of course if you were Black or Indian but could get away with "passing" for white, it made your ride through life smoother, socially and economically. And a lot of that got written down on self-identified census forms. The socially acceptable thing to do was to play down the "Irish" or "Jewish" or whatever bigot-target was in one's blood. My own family completely played down its Irish roots because in my grandparents' day that's how you survived.
At two times coinciding with the two World Wars, being "German" was one of the despised ethnicities, even though it's perhaps the most prevalent one in the US. People were banning German music, removing the German language from school curricula and stoning Dachshunds to death in the street. In that context Fred Trump disguised his own German heritage as "Swedish" even though he had no genealogical basis for it. And Rump the son believed it until I think the 1980s, simply because that's what he'd been told. No harm no foul there.
--- Which is also exactly what Warren did over the decades: repeat the family lore that
she had been told.
Shift over to Elizabeth Warren and yapping dogs like
CrusaderFrank yapping about Warren's ancestors self-identifying as "white" on census forms. Well, no shit, again that's how one survived in those times. And there are countless examples of others with African blood or suspected of having African blood (including Abraham Lincoln) who similarly identified as "white" if given the chance.
Yet here comes Rump, who himself believed and repeated his own disguised fake "Swedish" ethnicity, faked to avoid being known as German, implying that somebody else who never pretended such a disguise, is somehow "fake" while --- presumably --- he himself gets off the hook for doing what he accuses
somebody else of doing.
Double Standard apparently comes in Orange.
Doesn't get much more ironical than that.